The Bard's Town

10/06/2025

Hey Theatre friends! What does your card look like?

09/22/2025

Hey friends! Thank you again for all of your support during Give for Good last week! Your generosity was incredible and all of it will be put to good use! 🥰

To thank you a little more, we want to have an Open House this weekend! We aren't officially open yet, and we won't have bar service, but our neighbors over at Field are having their opening day event that day from 12-11! They'll have food trucks, games, music and a bar! 🤩

We invite you to come check out Jubilee Field and grab some food from their food trucks before coming over to have a little tour of our newly updated space and try out the new bathrooms! 😂 If you have alcoholic beverages, they will need to stay in Jubilee Field. We will have our own license once we start doing events soon!

We'll be playing movies and scenes from old shows on the projector, and we'll have tables and chairs set up for people to eat their food from the trucks. 🍔🍕🌮

We can't wait to see your smiling faces in the building!
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09/19/2025

Also, thank you for helping us break into the Top 10 for the most donations for our Tier group! There were 172 groups in our tier! Maybe next year we can make it into the Top 5! 😍

09/19/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to our Give for Good campaign this year! We had over 100 separate donations totaling $3870! That's all thanks to you wonderful people! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

With your donations, we will be able to put the finishing touches on the theatre so we can pass our inspections and open our doors! We can't wait to have all of your beautiful faces in the building!

We want to say thank you to our list of donors, but most importantly, Doug would want to say thank you for helping keep his dream alive and moving! ❤

Tammy Sweeney
Tom Barrow
Ben Vivona
Jane Mattingly
Angie Reed Garner
Jennifer Starr
Darby Stein
Mike Slaton
Will Dyre
Kate Holland
Kasey Carlson
Nate Stein
Brian Walker
Lori Vornberger
Stephanie Bilbrey
Krista Streips
Arthur Baltes
Sean Selby
Christopher McDavid
Ryan Watson
Jonathon Laise
Erin White
Colby Ballowe
Kelly Kapp
Amanda Lahti
Dakota Williams
Meghan Holland
Sedona Delaney
Marty Rosen
Ronald Creager
Justin Pinkerton
Callie Petty
Mike McKay
Erin Strensrud
Whitten Montgomery
Alana Suttles
Greg Collier
Madi Shipman
Austin Brooks
Zachery Kerr
Nick Potter
Nadine Lepore
Cassie Young
Michael Likavec
Dustin Yunker
Chris Mattingly
Ashley Kate Adams
Corey Music
Gabrielle Carmichael
Diedric Tupper
Kevin Crawford
Sarah Hackman
Matthew Yates
Darrel and Nancy Shelton
Rochelle Duff
Nancy Gall-Clayton
Marlena DeMar
John Finnegan
Shannon Delaney
Roger Fultz
Tristian Barnes
Marc Singer
Carinne Uslar
Caleb Miller
Brian Bowles
Magnolia Hensley
Jeannie Marie-Rogers
Missy Ward
Jacob Cooper
Steven Phelps
Marc McHone
Ginny Delaney
Christine and Pete Stavros
Kevin Butler
Connie Spalding
Cindy Hensley
Tristan MacDonald
Corrie Pfeiffer
Benjamin Baker
Caroline Kroondyk
Blythe Brooks
Fallon Pfieffer
Cynthia Knapek
Jason Roberts
Kara Bubenchik
Craig Highley
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09/19/2025

Hey you night owls! Want to help us out one more time!

The first donation that goes through at midnight gets a $1000 bonus for their organization! Even just $1 can win the thousand! Let's see if we can get it! 🤩

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09/18/2025

Do you want to be one of the first people to sit in the chairs at the new Bard's Town? If you contribute to our Give For Good campaign, you'll get an email with a link where you can sign up to receive all of our future updates in your email. That way, you'll be the first to know once the doors are open and we are ready for butts to be in seats! We can't wait for yours to be one of them! ❤️

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09/17/2025

I know I am! 😀🍻

Lots of work has been happening at the Bard! We're getting things cleaned up and ready for you to join us this Holiday season for King's of Christmas and some other special events! Keep an eye out on our page for future updates!

In the meantime, our Give For Good page is live and accepting donations to help us raise the curtain on our second act! If you miss The Bard as much as we do and want to get back in the building as soon as possible, please consider donating to our campaign this year!

Every little bit helps us complete our goal towards these finishing touches to make the theatre the best it can be for you! Thank you in advance for your kindness and generosity! ❤️

09/03/2025

Everything always works out how it's supposed to. ❤

✨💜✨ Have an amazing day! ✨💜✨

Thank you to for the wisdom and positivity. 💜

09/03/2025

Hey friends! Things are still moving at The Bard, and we're getting closer and closer to announcing an opening date. In the meantime, Give for Good is coming up in a couple of weeks! If you want to help us make the best Bard we can, please consider donating on Give for Good day! 😍

If you REALLY want to help, you can also create your own fundraiser page that will link to us, telling folks why you love and miss The Bard, to help us reach more people. There will be a link in the comments where you can go to make your own fundraiser page! 🤩

Thank you all for your continuing support! We can't wait to get all of your beautiful faces back in the building!🥰

05/12/2025

This weekend!

12/12/2024

Hey all!
This AMAZING show is on Friday. We really hope to see you there. Here are some words directly from the man himself, Doug Schutte, about what The Kings of Christmas meant:

"THE KINGS? Nothing at The Bard will make me smile more than my memories of this show. I was still figuring out how to run the restaurant. I scrambled to put together a mini season when we got the green light to open the theatre. I had everything else slated, but knew we needed a holiday play. So I listed a title: THE KINGS OF CHRISTMAS. I had not written a word of it. I didn't write a word of it until the first week of October. I didn't print a copy of it until the morning of the first read-through with the cast. What I had written had been a strange combination: the story of an old lady and a cat I had been sent via Google News. A series of magic shows I had just booked at the Bard. My love of Elvis. I had broken a host of the playwriting conventions I told my writing students you shouldn't break. I was convinced the cast would quit after the reading. Then, I was convinced audiences would hate it. Reviews would slam it. It would ruin The Bard.

Then the magic happened. Then people started asking for it again. Then, during the second year, I had audiences fill out a card to decide if KINGS would be back for year 3, or I would write something new. It wasn't even close. The next year a bank manager walks over behind the teller while I am depositing funds and leans in and says, "I just wanted to tell you that it's not Christmas until THE KINGS OF CHRISTMAS." After that, there was never really a question. THE KINGS had become a part of the holiday season for hundreds of people in Louisville. Media outlets were calling it a Louisville Holiday Tradition. And for 1/6 of every year for over a decade, I have lived in THE KINGS living room and with the King family. 1/6th of each year. That means I have spent 2 entire years of my life doing KINGS.

Money has never been the thing I have chased. Making money has never made me feel successful--which is good, because apparently I am not very good at it. Knowing you love this show, knowing that I bring laughter and joy to you...nothing has ever made me feel as proud, as rich...as alive. And you might be thinking, "isn't it weird that the thing you are most proud of is just about the dumbest play in history?" And I say...have you met me? I can't imagine it any other way. I can't thank you enough, but I'll try:

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
-SCHUTTE"

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12/10/2024

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